Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-04
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chanical sell fastening klndj ready TO repair
the accidents of the day.
ALEXANDER MACARTHUR, the winnipeg
scientist, WI no has jIst started out TO nnd tne
north pole carries with him for use IN Arctlc
rivers and lakes an inflated canvas boat
| weighing only twenty seven POUNDS. some
| OF his financial hackers are citizens Oh tnls
| country.
IT has been demonstrated that platinum
| wire may be drawn so fine as to he Invisible
| to the naked eye, although its prese nee upon
| a perfectly white card may be detected by
| the touch, and can he seen by The alu OF
| small magnifying glass when the caro- - heiu
in such a position that the wire casts q
| shadow.
! A BILL recently introduced in the Mime
Gotta Legislature provides that all railroad
companies operating in NinnesOta and carry
ing passengers shall furnish a special car
built OF iron or steel for each rain OF cars, or
| that a com Impairment OF such special car snaIi
| be built OF iron or steel. upon when snail ne
! located all heat and light producing me-
| dlums."
| SIX MILES from Mackinaw. H., is bit OF
ground about eighty feet square that Is al
| ways so warm that snow melts as soon az 1t
| falls upon it. 1t ia said that when the earth
| there is disturbed it flashes like burning
powder. and that a. peculiar gas comes up
| from the ground, which 81 fHr has shattered
| every vessel in which an effort has been made
to confne it.
A CITIZEN Of Carson, New, tried to cross
the railroad track the other day in advance
of an approaching express train. He stubbed
his toe, fell, and was in danger OF being run
over, when an agile Pinte Indian. at great
| personal peril, dragged him of the track:
| The citizen thereupon pulled out $40 gold
piece and handed it to the Indian, saying:
"Old pard, you've earned it,"
| ABOUT year ago the wife of Bohemian.
whose farm is near Highmore, OAK, deser'-
| ed him. The husband soon after wrote to an
old sweetheart OF his in his native country.
| asking her to come over and be his BRIDE. she
| SAID she would. and he sent her money. and
| the other day she arrived. Both seemed
much surprised that the authorities would
not permit them 10 marry, because the first
| wife still lives.
S. S, STAFFORD. of Baltimore, says that
Samuel Bayard stafford. of Prince George
| county, Md, has bequeathed to him the first
| American flag ever made, which was hoisied
on the BonhOm me Richard at the time Of the
| battle with the British frigate Scraps. The
flag wa the properly OF Lieut. James stat
| ford, the father r S. B. Stafford and the
| grandson of Col. Jacob Stafford, who fought
| under stark at Bennington.
GOOD DE L of fun is made of the wife of
one of the Justices OF the Supreme Court {,
rather free In her manners, who, on meeting
| OF the young men on the h ad exactly as she
| would have patted Mrs. Cevelands p odle-
| dog Hector. The Young man. who is a re-
| fined and educated gentleman. did not appear
| to enjoy the familiarity, and doubt es in mis-
| journal that night made record not over
| complimentary TO his friend.
| WHILE on his way to Cincinnati Henry
George lost his watch. 1t slipped out Of his
| pocket while doing in scat In a car. Half
| an hour after the arrival of his train in Gin
| cinnati the watch was found by a cleaner
| connected with the yard. the honest man,
who did not believe that property in watches
was a crime handed bis find" to the SUPER
lntendent of the road. VINO a. once returned
it to Mr.. George. Mr. George is almo.t a
convert to the theory that corporations have
souls-5ometimes.
THE official income tax returns just pub
lished chow that the man who is rated highest
in all Prussia is Herr KruDp, Of Essen. His
income is assessed at 5000, 600 marks, or f25o-
0O0 on which he pays ISL 200 marks, or Ct, $50
annually. Next comes Baron Roihschid, of
| Frank fort-on-the-M Main. with an income OF
$50 coo m arks paying ta1 OF 81, 0U0 MARKS, or
f4.050 per annum. Then follows he British
Consul General, Baron Bleichroder. OF Ber-
| lin, with an income of about 2.34O GOD marks,
paying an annual tax of S,400 marks.
| or fS,420. The next two richest men In Prus
STA are two Silesian iron masters. The only
other Prussians with an income OF over
| l,000. 900 marks are Baron Hansemann and
estphaiia magnate, each of whom paws
rather more than $500 year 10 the
Treasury.
SPANIEL. living on a farm In Flanders,
had for a companion beautiful young cat,
whom the ruthless farmer HAD doomed to ex-
termination. Tying stone around her neck,
he threw her into the river. But the spaniel
appropriated himself resOuteiy" into tie
stream, and brought her back in triumph to
the house. viii il be believed that the heart
of the farmer remained hardened! Again he
threw poor puss into the Mouse, but again.
like anhher Horatius, the spaniel-though
without 'his harness on his back; that had
been reserved for next market day
"piunged headlong IN the tide " Not only
so, but again he drew her safe 10 shore. And
-msrk the point of the story-it was to the
further shore Of the Meuse; he would not
trust his friend to the meroies of the home
side again.
THE old time Methodist habit of shouting
"amen" aud "That's SO, brother" in church
sometimes leads TO ludicrous results. An in
stance occurred few days ago in the Han
som Place Methodist Church in BROOKLYN.
The Rev. George r., Reed, n his sermon was
telling Of the benefit OF giving. and illus
trated 1t by examples from the Bible. An
old gent eman frequently interrupted By
shouts of "Amen" and That's 20 The
prescher remarked that some persons nigh
do bit what he told them, and say: .,On,
that's only what mr. Reed says, and he
doe MT know much anyway" just th,n
came the familiar interruptions: THAT'S so
brOther.' The house was cOnvused with
laughter, and the pastor smiled and saIu;
your interruption came in at the wrong
place that time, brother"
THE twenty second annual report of The
Peabody fund in London contains series of
interesting facts and figures most encourag
ing TO philanthroplsts, present and future. II
will be remembered that the sum total Of Mr..
Peabody's gifts 10 this Eng ish poor wa
-. SEQ O00 which sum was designed for the
building of homes for the working peop e. Up
to the clOee OF The year 30, 22S persons were Gu
joying shelter beneath the roofs hi s genero.itv
erected. while the rents, interest, etc had
swelled the capital to over $4.5O0, 600 in value.
The average rent Of these Apartments Ia about
5 20 week, in all cases Including the free
use of water, bath rooms and laundries
During 1856. the rents alone amounted 10
$40 0C. while the entire expenditures of the
trustees for repairs, etc, reached only the re-
markably low figure ofslo,00O.
MAJ. b. S. HENNING, an old New Yorker.
who has transferred some of his interests in
Orange county farms to orange groves in
Florida, is portly man, with a full round
face. smooth shaven, except for a large gray
moustache. He has two villas in Florida and
is enthusiastic about the future of that State
In taking the other day he said: Ten wears
ago Gen. Grant after a visit to Florida made
the prediction that 1t would some day be one
Of the wealthlest States. II took me A long
time to undersi and what he meant, II he had
made that prediction of Nevada coul i'd have
nndarGtOOd TINT he VIVA dazZIad hu tho Ia